School trips were last week (by the time I'm posting this, 3 weeks ago...). Each grade in middle school went to a different location and high school had their pick of trips. I went on the Da Lat trip and it was DaLata fun . . . get it? (*Disclaimer: I did not come up with that glorious pun) Some quick numbers: 1 student cried 2 buses 3 high school couples 4 nights 5 days 6 teachers 7 leech bites 51 students lots of amazing tour guides (Thank you Phat Tire Vietnam!) Day 1Successfully got everyone through airport security. Our boarding time arrives ... and our flight is delayed. Không sao (no problem) ... the kids just go to Burger King while we wait. We arrive in Da Lat an hour later than we're supposed to but the PTV guides are awesome. They have lunches packed for us on the bus and have plan B ready. We head to Dantanla waterfall where we take an alpine coaster down to the water. I had to threaten to fail a student if they didn't put on their breaks (they were going to run into me/Laura otherwise).
After the waterfall we head to a cable car that goes over the town through some amazing scenery (this is where I apologize fr not taking pictures until day 4 . . . I'll try to steal some from other people's facebooks later). After the cable car, we try to go see a local pagoda but get there 5 minutes after it closes to the public. So we head down the hill where we load our stuff onto boats and ride across the lake to our campsite (home for the first 2 nights). Once the kids calm down after finding out we do not have flush toilets (gotta put the water in them to manually flush out your poo), hot water, or showers, we get set up into tents and head to dinner. Much to the Korean students' disappointment, we have a wonderfully prepared Vietnamese dinner (and almost all subsequent meals) followed by a bonfire with marshmallow roasting.
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February 2022
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